LH Equestrian

02/06/2026

22/05/2026

🌞Sun's out🌞
With temperatures set to rocket this week, and the horses and ponies welfare in mind there will be no last minute cancellation fee applied if either I or the owner deem it too hot to exercise your lovely horses/ponies!
Instead find yourself a beer garden and enjoy 🍻

13/05/2026

❤️Horses and healing❤️
I must say lately I've been feeling a little frustrated with a few niggley issues (non horse related) so I've maybe been a little down beat! This got me to thinking how much time we spend complaining about the price of shoes/feed/livery our early mornings and days out cut short because we have to get back to see to the horses, but do we ever really appreciate the full value of what our horses do for us? I got up today throughly fed up, did the necessary chores then left the house with my black cloud in tow for my first job, I tacked up my first ride of the day, a lovely Irish mare and suddenly all my troubles disappeared, replaced by assessing my current ride and exercises to suit, 40 minutes later my mood had lifted and replaced by a little optimism about how the rest of my day may go, then i thought back to 2019, probably one of my toughest years to date there were a fair few disappointments that year most of the year I wallowed in self pity and wine however the only thing that got me through was getting my sorrowful backside out of bed to see to my horse, I'd spend hours sat in the field then slowly kicked myself up the backside and got my mare back out competing to have probably one of my most successful years ever! Only later to find out that tough time was the best thing that could have happened because it meant only a few years later I'd end up with my beautiful daughter 🥰 Another heartwarming story I thought of involves the best horse I will ever sit on. I thought it and he did it, 9 times out of 10 he would bring back a red rosette. He was as obnoxious as the day is long and would only let a select few ride him, now this boy really peaked at Elementary and I had aspirations to go further so after much deliberation and tears we decided to find him a new home where he could teach someone else as he had done me. Now he carefully selected his lady after humiliating 2 previous people, and he left us the weekend after, I was heartbroken. A little while passed and I contacted the lady and I was saddened to hear that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and it had really taken its toll on her, (now this bit still brings a tear to my eye) I suggested we have him back for a while I would keep him in work whilst she was on the mend then he could go back home, Her response to this was, Thankyou but no, because every morning I get up and look out of my window and when I see him it gives me a reason to keeping fighting to get better, and that she did as I recieved a photo of him adorned in rosettes after winning the veteran championships at bd 🙌
Thinking through all this whilst being pelted with hail stones and still wearing my long winter coat in May I must say how bloody privileged I am to have spent the last 33 years surrounded by horses, Our private unpaid therapists no judgement just happy with a friendly pat and a bucket of nuts 😍

02/05/2026

Evening all, I've been receiving an extraordinary amount of booking's lately both new and repeat meaning it is just taking a little time to get back to everyone to make sure I can fit everyone in. Apologies if my response is a little delayed as I'm trying hard to juggle work, my horses and a 2 year old seeing my days start at 5.30am and often finishing at 7😳 but at the same time I want to thankyou all for you're patience and loyalty, recommendations through word of mouth have seen my work double lately and still now I can't believe how far this little venture has come in the last few years 🥰 I've got an incredible bunch of horses and clients and I hope to be doing this for a few more years to come ❤️

22/04/2026

Horses and heartbreak 💔
As with all things equestrian the highs rarely last for long, After the news that Fairyhill Mercury had received his class 1 status on Thursday it was Legacy's turn to receive some attention. Having had the winter off I had recently brought her back into work having looked slightly unlevel infront in the October. Unfortunately it seems time was not a healer in this case and we we're no further forward. After nerve blocks and X-rays it seems we still have no clear answers but the vet indicated that his thoughts we're that she is unlikely to make any more than a light hack at this point. Now apart from the frustration that yet again I'm no closer to reaching my goals this is especially heartbreaking as most people know myself and my grandad joined forces in this project to breed a nice little horse that I could finally get out and enjoy some success on as I had in my late teens and 20's before focusing on young horses. My grandad loved a finer horse a lover of good mare and also a bay, I like something with a bit more substance and I had my heart set on a black c**t. So in true form my grandad was blessed with a very elegant bay filly 😂 Now unfortunately before our beautiful girl came into the world we received an unexpected diagnosis that my grandad had got non Hodgkin's lymphoma and there was nothing that could be done. All efforts were made to get him home to be surrounded by his family, he would tell me every day that he just wanted to live long enough to see his foal , Our final conversation we had the afternoon before he passed was how I promised when the foal was born we would get back out competing and make him proud again! We lost my grandad on the 20th of March 2021, Our stunning filly foal was born on the 19th of May, and absolutely everything he had hoped for 🥰 This made Mondays news particularly hard as I somehow feel I've failed him, however our Bryan the sensitive soul he always was would be the first to say " Stop bloody moping about, that's not going to change anything"🙄 So as always we keep going every new day brings new opportunities and apparently God loves a trier, and lord knows I'm trying😂 I will continue to clutch to my last few straws but my gut tells me she will be mowing the lawn for a good few years to come 🪴Mercury has some big shoes to fill of which I'm sure he will!
But if you're reading this and feeling like the world is against you, you're not achieving what you want to and there's always something holding you back, just know you're not alone, and hey what else would you be spending every penny you worked for on 🤷‍♀️ because Barbados is sooooooooo overrated 😂❤️😝
Lots of love 🐴

18/04/2026

🌟A day to remember🌟
As most of you know our mini break to Ireland to visit friends last August escalated slightly and we returned home with a 2 year old C**t that we had neither the time nor the space for, but love makes us do crazy things🥰 Now after a slight stabling crisis our wonderful neighbor and friend Mick got us out or the 💩 and made room for him (which we are forever grateful) along with all the boys at Lawns for letting me use the cows grazing and turning a blind eye 🫣
On Thursday he attended his grading which also happened to be my birthday, I was thrilled and surprised to find his breeder John Noel Mullen had made the trip over to join us for the day, So off we went chauffeured by our wonderful friends Woods Man and Cheryl Sorsby-Booth, A couple of wrong turns one crash and many roadworks left us with around 7 minutes to spare before his inspection started so there was a huge team effort to get organised. The assessment ran smoothly the panel we're lovely and gave us great feedback, I was however probably the only person on the day to burst into tears and hug all the judges slightly embarrassing 😆
To most breeders/producers this is a pretty standard process to me this is much more.
After years of disappointments losing my wonderful mare Custard to a hind limb injury, to breeding my dream horse with my grandad of which I had so many high hopes and her getting a kick from another horse causing serious stifle damage of which she's still not right 😢This marks a fresh start, after years of being desperate to climb the dressage ladder but seemingly being stuck at elementary due to injuries, horses being sold or the owners taking over the reins this is hopefully my chance to achieve my dreams, at nearly 40 I do feel I'm running out of time. I may not have the budget for a dreamy warmblood but there is no other horse I'd rather be trotting up the centre line on than this lad❤️
Thanks to all my family and friends who have made this possible, and here's my CLASS 1 Stallion Fairyhill Mercury ❤️❤️❤️